What should children be thought in their grammar schools these days? What will our society look like in twenty years? What are the most efficient ways of teaching? What should the beneficial IT lesson be?
These and similar questions we put not only to ourselves but to various figures across disciplines as well, to people from science, business, education, parents and to all active people who understand that good-quality education is our future and that we cannot fully rely on our state in this regard.
"Our future is uncertain, that's the only thing that we can claim for sure," said Michael Sebek, professor of Cybernetics at CTU (Czech Technical University) in Prague.
Therefore, in his opinion, schools should prepare children for any future and develop those skills that are appropriate for every future. Our school has come up to the same conclusion and we think that it is necessary to develop creative and critical thinking, flexibility, the ability to communicate and the need for lifelong learning. Thus, there is responsibility instead of blind obedience and curiosity instead of expectation of closed lectures that we want to create our school on together with overall approach to students. We want our teaching to be a source of inspiration and good tools. We want to encourage young people to "try", not to be afraid of trying things in spite of making mistakes because one can effectively learn by making mistakes and it moves the person on and further.
In our view, one of the main tasks of the school is to give people information about their personality, who they are, what their values are, what they are very good at or what their limits are. This is the only way to build an individual's natural self-confidence in order to live a fulfilled and happy life.
We want to be a place where there are good and healthy interpersonal relationships, a place where people respect each other, a place where both children and adults like to attend and meet because they feel safe there.
Praha - Satalice, Autumn 2019
How we work
We take students as partners.
We prefer the hustle and bustle of work to calm and order.
Our classes are usually not 45 minutes long, but an hour and a half long, we take breaks as needed. It doesn't ring for us. Our classrooms are equipped with mobile furniture, which we adapt according to needs. When the weather is good, we also teach outside in the garden. We include movement and mindfulness techniques in the classes.
We prefer flexible and objective communication and problem solving when needed. We also use modern technologies for effective communication. One example is the school's discord server, which allows us to inform the entire school within seconds.
Sound in body, sound in mind.
We don't just teach how to use technology, we also teach how to take a break from it.
Our students have four hours of physical education a week, which is double the hourly allowance than usual. The exact name of the subject is Sport and Health, as we also focus on a healthy lifestyle and first aid skills.
We are convinced that gaining a positive attitude towards healthy and ideally regular exercise is a great benefit in life.
We approach physical activities individually and are also interested in associated disciplines such as sports physiotherapy. As a sports-based teaching team, we have our own sports activities and a completely natural interest in everyone finding an exercise that suits them.
In addition to regular ski trips, we organize boating trips and hiking trips, we go climbing, we go swimming.
We work on projects.
We invite experts from companies.
We create assignments that students work on for a long time, either individually or in a team. Some projects are cross-curricular, teachers often collaborate on assignments. We often invite guests who are experts on the given topic to the classes. Some are a permanent part of the team and teach regularly every week.
Option to connect online.
We connect students who had to stay at home due to illness, but want to be active, to the classes. We build the curriculum in such a way that it can be used online and that students can continue the divided work at home.
How we rate
There are not only marks in our school, but the formative evaluation as well.
Formative assessment accompanies the whole educational process as a feedback focused on a practical statement of how the student understood the curriculum, where he has reserves and what he should do to achieve better results. The goal of such assessment is to monitor personal growth, not to compare the student with the others, nor to measure performance.
The mark or summative evaluation then serves to let the student know how he stands on an imaginary scale of measurable performance and can, for example, evaluate that he is not achieving good results in a given area, although he tries and works intensively.
Both can be seen on the report card - both the grade and the feedback always for the given semester. We evaluate continuously and show results to students immediately using the school system.
Teaching plan
What should school teach these days?
Read, write and prompt...
Our curriculum is based on the Framework Education Program for Gymnasiums (RVPG), we use the available hours to increase the number of hours of computer science, English and physical education. We have our own subjects: Infor/maths, Humanities, Science, fully integrating the educational areas described in the RVPG, we far exceed the required output competencies.
From the third year onwards, we offer students compulsory optional subjects and seminars, which creates the possibility of compiling your own schedule focused on the areas that the student wants. Each student then has the so-called "BASE" subjects in the schedule, which are compulsory, and "ADVANCED" subjects, which he can choose himself and only has to observe the total number of hours.
Advanced subjects for the 3rd and 4th year:
Backend programming
Internet of Things
Algorithmization
Financial literacy
Social
Writing
Psychology
Chemistry
Frontend programming
Cyber security
Python
History
Geography, global topics
Art
Physics
Biology
Optional subjects
Mathematics for neural networks
Selected topics from the history of the 20th century
Debating
Book versus film - reading and film club
Interwoven educational areas
Informatics, Humanities, Science, English language, Spanish language, Sports and health
We connect learning areas to teach in context. For example, it is not very effective to discuss modern history separately - in history, then in literature, in the basics of social sciences... it is not only cognitively inefficient, it is also impractical and lengthy, because everything is related to everything. It actually applies to all eras. There is also no need to report work with the text to the Czech language class, because the text is also a political discussion, a rant on a social network, or the output of a GPT chat. You always need to understand the content and the intention first, only then are you interested in other circumstances such as formal language devices or whether the text is spelled correctly. In the humanities, we also include teaching financial literacy and guiding students towards entrepreneurship. We focus on the development of students' aesthetic perception, e.g. in the form of artistic creation. There is a theater club at the school, whose student members go regularly to performances of Prague scenes.
In the Science subject, we try to integrate science areas in a similar way. For a deeper understanding of physical and chemical topics, a quality mathematical foundation is usually needed, therefore connecting the natural sciences is more demanding and involves careful planning of the sequence of topics, nevertheless we strive for this and we also try to develop in students a real for scientific research and an effort to critically evaluate sources.
In all areas, we are interested in the involvement of Artificial intelligence and the possibilities of its use. At the same time, we carefully distinguish for what is the AI suitable and for what is not. We involve also machine learning - from a technical point of view we deal with it already in computer science classes in the 1st grade and in the following years we follow it up in more detail.
We use English not only in English lessons, but wherever it is appropriate. Our team includes native speakers who try to bring the realities of the countries whose language they speak into their lessons.
We also have the subject "Vuelta" focused on the development of personal and social competences. We borrowed the name from Spanish and it came about in the sense of "we are going back to what happened, we are doing a retrospective". The aim of this course is to teach students to assess the results of their work, to evaluate the efforts made and personal progress. This subject is assessed verbally only.
Modern technologies
We deal with IT areas across and connect algorithmic thinking with mathematics.
IT topics also affect our other subjects. We want our students to gain insight into technology and have an idea of its influence and use in the professions they choose, and at the same time to learn about the mechanisms by which technology affects a person's mental and physical health. From the third year, students choose the level of technical depth of IT subjects.
Basic level: advanced user skills, basics of programming and data processing, git, basics of Linux, basics of web development, security topics and digital footprint, principles and uses of AI, disinformation and social networks, company culture and roles in the company, agile approaches, UX, commercial solution versus opensource.
Advanced level: development of your own software project under expert guidance, possibility to choose from other areas: cyber security, programming - backend, programming - frontend, algorithmization, IoT, neural networks.
Graduates 2024
A journey to professional achievements
Our graduate is a person who believes in himself and knows his potential, a person who makes responsible decisions, who is open and positive, but critical, a person with a need for lifelong learning, a person with a tendency to create values and opportunities not only for himself, but also for others, a person who knows that physical movement is a necessary part of life, as well as healthy lifestyle habits.
As our graduate, we believe, you will immediately be able to:
1. Go on studying at any university in Czechia or abroad
2. Start working and apply your skills
3. Combine both - you will be both financially independent and free in your next study or life choice as well
How did they do in the university entrance exams and where are they going?
UK Komunikační studia se zaměřením na mediální studia
Howest, Digital arts and entertainment, Game graphics production
University of New York in Prague, IT
VUT, fakulta podnikatelská, obor entrepreneurship and small business development
UK, Matfyz, Informatika
UK, HTF, Náboženství a základy společenských věd se zaměřením na vzdělávání
ČVUT FEL, Kybernetika a robotika
VŠE podnikohospodářská fakulta nebo Unicorn University bussines and management
ČVUT krajinářská architektura
VŠE FIS informační média a služby
ČVUT FEL Otevřená informatika
TU Dublin, Game Design
Unicorn ČR online
IT/Finance v Japonsku
UK, FHS (fakulta humanitních studií)
Metropolitní univerzita v Praze
ČVUT FIT
Farmaceutická fakulta v Hradci Králové Univerzity Karlovy, obor farmacie
FSV UK, Politologie a mezinárodní vztahy
VŠE fakulta podnikohospodářská / Unicorn University, Bussines management
Unicorn university - softwarový vývoj
Právnická Fakulta UK
School building
Rádiovka in Satalice
30 minutes from Prague centre
Reconstructed school building is located in a quiet area in the northern part of Prague, Satalice. The address is: K Cihelně 129/1.
It is surrounded by a large garden of 22 000 m² which we also use as part of our teaching. It includes a multi-purpose sports field.
The building is from the 1920s, when it served as a radio station and to this day the locals call it 'Rádiovka'. Now, the front of the school has a multi-purpose playground with a tartan surface and the complex has a garden that has fruit trees as well as a military bunker.
There is a bus stop (Za Novákovou zahradou) that is located directly in front of the school. The school can be reached by public transport from the city center (Museum) in 30 minutes via Letňany or Rajská zahrada.
The fastest connection from the city center is by train - 17 minutes from the Masarykovo nádraží to the Satalice station, then it is a 10-minute walk to the school. From Neratovice it takes 30 minutes; from Zlonín 20 minutes, from Hovorčovice 11 minutes, from Čakovice 6 minutes, from Uhříněves 40 minutes, from Újezd na Lesy 25 minutes and from Horní Počernice it takes 8 minutes.
There is a parking place at the building.
If you are not from Prague, we can help you arrange a boarding accommodation.
Cooperation with companies
We would like to thank everyone for their cooperation and ongoing activities, licenses, environment, domains, educational labs and consultations.
Thank you for your interest in our curriculum, for sharing experience and possibilities of joint projects, for technological overlap, for helpfulness and willingness.
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Cooperation with schools
Opportunities to study abroad.
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Okanagan Skaha School District
We have been working with Canadian secondary schools in British Columbia since 2023 through Czenadians. We recommend our students to study abroad for one semester staying at a host family. We work directly with the director of District 67 Okanagan Skaha Darcy Mullin, who was at our school to present the Canadian program in person, then director Markéta Fibigerová visited schools in Canada.
AFS - intercultural programs
Every year we host one foreign student at our school, who is always a part of the class for the whole school year. We have many years of good experience with AFS, which is why we also recommend them as an opportunity to travel abroad.
Skyro - school of future
The private High school in Bratislava, founded in 2024, is focused on information technology and artificial intelligence. We share know-how and experience with the founders of the school. We look forward to our cooperation.
Private IT High school in Žilina
We have been cooperating since 2022, sharing our experiences with student projects - distance and in person.